Where the hell Chapel Hill is.

Get it? No? Well, read on.

When we talk about Chapel Hill music, we're really referring to music
made in and around the triangle formed by Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill,
North Carolina (shown handily in pink on the map above).

Why is this particular triangle, and its music scene, worthy of so much
attention? Hmm. Three major and a half-dozen smaller universities provide
the audience base and a portion of the raw talent. A couple of dozen clubs
book live music on a regular basis. The Research Triangle Park provides
the high-paying hightech jobs which in turn provide the wealthy patrons
for the scads of restaurants which provide waiter/cook/dishwasher employment
to all the musicians. (We've also got plenty of musicians who bypass the
restaurant cycle and just go ahead and do the hightech jobs themselves.)